NOD - NPC Outfit Diversity

With NPC Outfit Diversity, you can enjoy a more colorful and varied fashion scene in Vvardenfell (and Solstheim and Mournhold).

NOD uses equipment created by modders to add new and unique outfits for NPCs, making them more unique and visually appealing. The overall aesthetic was inspired by mods like Dunmer Nobles Overhaul, Buoyant Armigers Armor, Investigations at Tel Eurus, and Yul Marshee and the Visage of Mzund - colourful, fun, and lore-extending, but still respectful of the original themes.

It covers both equipment (armor, clothing, and weapons) as well as general appearance (heads and hairs). Which means it should probably be called "NPC Appearance Diversity", but I like NOD better as an acronym.

As of v1. 2, NOD also adds some new clothes and hairs that aren't available anywhere else, and also makes some custom tweaks to the resources used so that they blend in better with each other and with vanilla.

I had several goals in mind while making this mod:

• []Add more colour and variety to Vvardenfell's fashion scene. I've been playing this game for 20 years, it was time to freshen it up.

  []Add colour and pizzazz without breaking the lore. We've all had a rough few years, and I've come out of that wanting more colour and fun rather than grim-dark gritty realism, which I tended to prefer in the past. And, look. I really like waistcoats. What can I say?

  []Make use of the wonderful clothes, armors, weapons, heads, and hairs that the community has created over the past two decades, and really show them off in a way that does them justice. Instead of being shoved into leveled lists or into the inventory of a lonely shopkeeper in the middle of nowhere, NOD puts them on display.

  []NOD also puts them into leveled lists and the worldspace, of course, so that you can have as much drip as the NPCs.

  []Smooth out conflicts between some existing NPC enhancement mods, remove any lore-breaking items, and rebalance stats so they fit in well with each other and with the vanilla equipment progression curve.

  []Maintain balance. Many NPCs now have better equipment, meaning that you'll have a tougher fight if you want to get your hands on it. The strongest sets of equipment are rare.

  []Where possible, maintain compatibility with the original mods.

  []Exhaustively document changes so that it's easy to check compatibility.

  []Make faction, class, and cultural affiliations more obvious and distinct.

  []Make every NPC unique, in a way that respects their personality and position in life.

  []Iconic NPCs are less likely to be changed. Caius, Jiub, M'Aiq, and Divayth aren't changed, for example.

  []Make sure the vanilla items still get used regularly. I don't want to get rid of them, just add more variety.

  

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